Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-04
THE RICHMOND DISPATCH SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER 4. 1887

only ten 10 twenty-five parts waste
water, he from that moment begins 10
use bis common sense in feeding as he
does in earning his living. The popu-
lar rule is Never pay any heed to the
ieedingsyalue OF our diet let us cult.
vate o glorious ignorance OF the pur-
pose Of foods, and go in might and
main for palate-tickiers, and devil take
the dyspepsia. Pity he doesn't.
LIVE on SIX CENTS DAY.
Just fact or two as appetizers. The
great Peninsular and Oriental (the r.
and o. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies to do the hardest
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier, and stand the
climate better than Englishmen, and
because--not being meat-eaters-their
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the Eng
lish coal pits, the hardest workers
in the land, who have not eaten
any kind of meat for years. l am not
a vegetarian, because / banker after the
neshpots, and their savory odors cast a
spell over my innocent soul yet l ex-
perimented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form, and
all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock porters
of CoDstantinople carry heavier bur
dens--two hundred and fifty pounds
and upwards-more easily than the Ia
borers Of England or America, yet
their main diet is bread and figs, and
yet they are teetotal and vegetarian.
The laborers in Spain live chiefly on
bread and onions. and are marvellously
strong.
The hesh-and-blood superstition is
quite as baseless in diet as in theology.
A horse is almost as strong. swift.
healthy, and handsome as n two-legged
man, and they both have the same in
ternal machinery the one eats beef
and enjoys dyspepsia, the other avoids
it and fiourishes. Ten cents worth OF
wheat, oatmeal, rice, fruits, butter
milk, bread, cheese, onions, or por-
tions Of several OF these, will enable a
man to do his ordinary days work at
least as well as any other assortment OF
foods he can buy for a dollar.
HEALTH WITHOUT MEAT.
What would be a good diet for those
who DO not need to study their purses
vet who would like q simple, healthy,
and enjoyable dietary? To such |
would say drop the heavy meat breakfast
right away. Not that meat is bad, but
it is not the best to start the day on. 1t
distends the stomach, indisposes us for
head-work, and often leads to that
other downright mischievous stupidity,
the II o'clock beer or cocktail. The
second evil is taken to cure the first, as
if two black eyes are better than one.
Bread mot the spoiled white stuff, but
the natural dark-colored wheat as
ground), tea or cocoa, eggs, and the
hundred and one non-hesh dishes, with
little fish and as much fruit as You
like. That's a model meal, as expe-
ricnce will prove.
Talking Of fish, the more the better.
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh, though it DOESN'T seem to fill US
so fully, and its chemical value IS far
above that of meats. When / have
extra hard brain work to do, say an
avt1age Of twelve or fourteen hours for
two or three weeks at a stretch, 1 knock
off meats entirely and eat all the fish
can. Result, perfect health and strength
and no headaches.
For dinner, fish, soups Il an not ex-
Guiding meat, though soups can be
made without it that taste just the same
and arc quite as good every way, pud-
dincs, dessert. If any one cares to
prove for himself how little the flesh
dishes on his dinner table are necessary
10 him, Let him justroverse the courses,
beginning with the fruit, then cheese
and crackers, the buildings, &c. | war
lant he will turn up his nose at the
meat when he comes to it, and he won /
miss II the least.
/ knew an eminent lady who for for
ty years had never tasted meat. She
was n marvel Of mental and physical
strength. Another author friend kept
his health and his average weight OF
100 pounds on d diet that never IN
cluGcd meat, the average cost oil his
food beirg only six cents per day.
Another, a well-known literary man,
who looked as bcefy as butcher, was,
when last / met him, in his eighth year
Of strict abstinence from flesh. An
other friend, hard literary worker,
Las been practically a lifelong vegeta-
rian, but he looks too shriyelled up TO
be a champion specimen.
MIDNIGHT ROWS N THE METROPOLIS.
The midnight rows of New York dc
not always find their way into the pa.
pers. Many man has experiences OF
a bclligcrent sort which strike him fol
the time being as events OF vast i'm
portance, but when he eagerly scans
the papers on the following day he i
usually more or less surprised 10 fine
no mention of the occurrence. have
gone home late four times this weel
30 far, ard every night | have seen more
or less of arrow. On the first occasion
it was shortly after l o'clock, anC
l had turned into Twenty-fifth stree
from Madison Square, when the Sc
cond-story window of a pretentiout
house was raised softly and a man il
Il lath-robe thrust out his head anC
said politely:
- beg your pardon"
stopped and called up to him a
once that lis apology was accepted.
The fact is, r." he said conhdentially
and with en- exceedingly well-breC
intonation Of voice, "there is some
thing going on in here. | may add a
once that their are burglars in TIT
house.
/ looked up and down the bright,
LIGHTED street and not a man was to b.
seen in any direction. Then l aske,
the man in the bath robe to come dow
and open the door, He closed tn
window softly after expressing hi
thanks, and l yelled "Police at tn
top of my lungs.
/ wish to say for the credit OF tn
force that / never before saw such
stunning outburst of guardians of tn
peace us that call brought forth. Par
policemen, city policemen, and distric
messenger policemen hocked fron
every corner, guarded the house, from
and rear, and began thorough scare
of the premises at once. Thereupo'
the gentleman in the bath robe and
bowed politely to one another and
went home and to bed. Though liv
within q pistol.shot Of this thrillin
episode | have not since heard wor